BILINGUAL FRENCH / ENGLISH
From the middle of the nineteenth century onwards, the new organisation of working hours contributed to the advent of leisure activities. Paris and the surrounding region became the figurehead for this change in France and Europe. This phenomenon gave Impressionism its heyday, but it was the artists of the next generation, belonging to the « Belle Époque » (1890-1914), who saw a real turning point in the expression of modernity in painting. Leisure activities and shows, by day and night, developed in all directions, attracting an ever-growing public from a variety of social backgrounds. Boating, skating, horse racing, circuses, cabarets, theatres and music halls were all subjects painted by numerous artists : Anquetin, Bonnard, Dufy, Pourtau, Roussel, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vallotton, but also Abel-Truchet, Chabaud, Ibels or Albert André.
Exhibition at the musée Bonnard, Le Cannet | Côte d'Azur from July 1 to November 5, 2023
Bilingual French / English
192 pages
SilvanaEditoriale
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